Oil-burner.



Q.EGKLAND. OIL BURNER. APPLICATION FILED NOV.22, 1911.

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CHARLES ECKLAND, 0F STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented nen. ri', 191.4.

Application filed November 22, 1911. Serial No. 661,691.

To all 10h-0m it may concern:

Be it lrnown that l, CHARLES ECKLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at- Stoclrton, in the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have invented new and useful improvements in Cil-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

rllie invention relates to oil burners, particularly to that class of oil burners employing steam as an atomizing agent and has for an object to provide an oil burner embodying improvements over the construction of an oil burner for which a patent was granted to me November 9, 1909, No. 939,816.

A specific object of the present invention is to improve the construction of the body of the burner, the same being formed with parallel oil and steam passages discharging at one end of the body, an inlet opening for the steam passage at the opposite end of the body, widened portion of the steam passage into which the inlet opening discharges and a further provision of a plurality of inlet openings for the oil passage and a wall around one of said inlet openings and extending across and forming an abutment in and spaced from the sides of the widened portion of the steam passage, to canse steam to divide and pass around opposite sides of said abutment while traversing the steam passage, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a part. of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote correspo-nding parts in all the views, and in whicl Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of my oil burner. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 8 is an end elevation looking atthe rear end of the burner and Fig. 11 is an end elevation looking at the front end of the burner.

Referring more particularly to the views, l provide a body 10 having twin oil openings 11, one oil admission opening extending into the body from the upper end thereof and the other oil admission opening extending into the body from the lower end thereof and formed at the rear end of the body, a steam opening 12 being formed at the same end of the body and terminating in a groove 13, eX tending around the lower oil admission open ing 11 and having connection with a steam passage 141C, formed by arranging a longitudinally extending partition 15 within the body 10, the space between the upper side of the partition 15 and the side of the body, constituting an oil passage 16 and terminating in the oil admission openings 11. The partition 15 at the rear end thereof, is formed integrally with the body 1() and the front end of the partition is spaced from a flange 17, formed on the lower wall of the body and extending upwardly to partially close the front end of the steam passage 14, the space between the free end of the partition 15 and the free end of the fla-nge 17, constituting a steam outlet 18.

Connected to the front end of the body 10 is a nozzle cap 19, the said cap being provided with an opening 2O and mounted to in close the front end of the oil passage 16 and the outlet 18 of the steam passage 14.

Now when oil is admitted through either of the oil admission openings 11, the said oil passing through the oil passage 16 flows into a chamber 21 in the nozzle cap 19, where steam admitted into the steam passage 1li through the steam opening 12 and passing thro-ugh the outlet 18, mingles wit-h the oil in the chamber 21 and forces the oil outwardly through the opening 20, where the flame is produced, the said steam being adapted to act as an atomizing agent for the oil to force the same outwardly from the cap through the opening 2O and mingle with the oil to form a highly combustible vapor.

immediately above the steam admission opening 12 in the body 10, l provide a cleaning passage 22 arranged in horizontal alinement with the oil passage 16 and normally closed by a plug 28, threadedly connected to the body 10, so that when it is desired to clean the oil passage 16, the plug 28 is re moved and a suitable cleaning member can be passed through the opening 22 and moved to and fro in the oil passage 16, thus removing any foreign matter from the oil passage and facilitating the flow of oil through the passage.

1. An oil burner comprising a body having parallel oil and steam ,passages discharging at one end of the body, said steam passage having an inlet opening at the opposite end of the body and a widened portion into which the inlet opening discharges; the body being also provided with a plurality of inlet openings for the oil passage and with a wall around one of said inlet openings, the

said wall extending across and forming an abutment in and being spaced from the sides of the widened portion of the steam passage,

5 to cause steam to divide and pass around opposite sides of said abutment while traversing' said steam passage for the purpose set forth. v

2. An oil burner comprising a body havl0 ing parallel oil and steam passages discharging at one end of the body, said steam passage being below the o-il passage and having an inlet opening at the opposite end of the body and a widened portion into which the l5 inlet opening discharges; the body being also provided with upper and lower inlet CHARLES ECKLAND. lVitnesses r NIERVYN EACH, E. E. MoCUroi-IEN.

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